Island IPA
Bad Martha Farmer's Brewery
- From:
- Bad Martha Farmer's Brewery
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 80
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 13.51%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 12
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Nov 28, 2018
- Added:
- Jan 14, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 20
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by smcolw from Massachusetts
3.95/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Light amber color with the very lightest of hazes--nearly clear. Modest head which settles to rim bubbles. Some good initial spots for lace. Very few spots thereafter.
A touch of caramel with a floral hop aroma. Pleasant and unremarkable.
The malt is subdued--I get a little biscuit and crystal malt sweetness. The hop comes in quickly with a white pepper bite. The swallow, though, brings back some of the malt smoothness leaving a balanced aftertaste. The body is appropriate, smooth really. Decent carbonation. Overall, I like this IPA as a good, true to the style, introduction to craft beer. That said, it isn't the finest beer offered, but still very good.
Jul 24, 2016A touch of caramel with a floral hop aroma. Pleasant and unremarkable.
The malt is subdued--I get a little biscuit and crystal malt sweetness. The hop comes in quickly with a white pepper bite. The swallow, though, brings back some of the malt smoothness leaving a balanced aftertaste. The body is appropriate, smooth really. Decent carbonation. Overall, I like this IPA as a good, true to the style, introduction to craft beer. That said, it isn't the finest beer offered, but still very good.
Reviewed by VelvetExtract from Massachusetts
3.29/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.29/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Beer Summit sample pour. Pours a clear copper. Aroma is very soft. It doesn't really have anything wrong with it, it's just tough to peg it as an IPA. Mild hops and caramel sweetness. Malty pale ale flavor, too. Soft flavors. Probably could put down a couple but it surely is a bore.
Apr 19, 2016
Reviewed by WillieThreebiers from Connecticut
3.74/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.74/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a deep honey gold with a half finger of head that quickly dissapates to a cap with ample sticky lacing that persists throughout. Very little aroma..taste mild malty sweetness no bitterness.
Feb 19, 2016
Reviewed by ryan1788a5 from Massachusetts
2.42/5 rDev -30.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5
2.42/5 rDev -30.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 1.5
12oz bottle poured into a snifter.
A: Bright golden-orange color with great clarity. Creamy fine-bubbled head retains well. Spotty lacing.
S: Blood orange and tangerine, sugared grapefruit, orange gummy wedges and a sort of gummy bear fruitiness. A bit floral. Tick of grape leaves far in the back. Sweet malt base is very involved. Honey and caramel, lightly toasty and nutty.
T: Earthy and fruity hop flavors. Tangerine, blood orange, sugared grapefruit and candied citrus peels. Notes of bark and peppery tobacco. Gummy fruit chews. Grape leaves creep in with some unpleasant and acidic bitterness. Orange blossom honey and caramel, light toast. Peppery,acidic, and bitter grape leaves close things on a sour note.
M: hefty medium body is coating and rife with residual sugars. Prickling carbonation does not do enough to lift it, so this weighty and sticky feeling really sits.
O: Perhaps my palate is sensitive to the grape leaves, but even if you took that most awful part of the beer away, what's left is nothing special. Sweet and sticky malt flavors and textures ruin drinkability and don't give the hops enough space to operate either. If you're going to use citra, let it shine. I suspect it was done more for the buzz behind the strain than anything.
Jan 16, 2016A: Bright golden-orange color with great clarity. Creamy fine-bubbled head retains well. Spotty lacing.
S: Blood orange and tangerine, sugared grapefruit, orange gummy wedges and a sort of gummy bear fruitiness. A bit floral. Tick of grape leaves far in the back. Sweet malt base is very involved. Honey and caramel, lightly toasty and nutty.
T: Earthy and fruity hop flavors. Tangerine, blood orange, sugared grapefruit and candied citrus peels. Notes of bark and peppery tobacco. Gummy fruit chews. Grape leaves creep in with some unpleasant and acidic bitterness. Orange blossom honey and caramel, light toast. Peppery,acidic, and bitter grape leaves close things on a sour note.
M: hefty medium body is coating and rife with residual sugars. Prickling carbonation does not do enough to lift it, so this weighty and sticky feeling really sits.
O: Perhaps my palate is sensitive to the grape leaves, but even if you took that most awful part of the beer away, what's left is nothing special. Sweet and sticky malt flavors and textures ruin drinkability and don't give the hops enough space to operate either. If you're going to use citra, let it shine. I suspect it was done more for the buzz behind the strain than anything.
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